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Traditional food provenance methods are typically designed to identify one species at a time. So we worked out a new approach, as part of a broader effort to combat seafood fraud and illegal fishing.
Allegations of business rates evasion and counterfeit goods are just a glimpse into the dark world of food crime.
When fish are out of water, consumers are out of their depth.
Fraudulent spices aren’t new – but sage is the latest victim.
Trust in our global food supply chains remains a concern. For the foreseeable future, much of Canada’s food fraud remains hidden in plain sight, sitting right there on our grocery store shelves.
A project to protect producers from food fraud by verifying and promoting the provenance of the region’s beef exports to China turned out to be a source of creative work in the region as well.
Our new paper titled ‘DNA barcoding validates species labelling of certified seafood’ presents the largest and most comprehensive assessment of MSC-labelled products to date.
Food fraud, the centuries-old problem that won’t go away.
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Dairy farmers used to put sheep brains and chalk in skim milk to make it look frothier and whiter. Coffee, honey and wine have also been past targets of food fraudsters. Can the law ever keep up?
With Walmart bringing blockchain technology to its grocery stores, other retailers will soon have to get on board.
Food fraud and safety concerns are an ongoing problem in the agrifood sector— could blockchain technology be a solution?
Food fraud is a common problem that technologies such as blockchain and DNA fingerprinting can help to solve.
Even a fraction of a penny per egg over hundreds of thousands of eggs can mean being able to survive as a business, so the temptation to cut corners is huge.
Food fraud is a huge problem in the UK, and much of it is as a result of organised crime. Unfortunately, as the report of the Elliott Review on the 2013 horsemeat scandal now points out, there is too little…
European food politics began 2013 with the horsemeat scandal, and it is ending with meat and horsemeat still high on the agenda. The publication of the interim findings from the review chaired by Professor…
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Director, Agri-Food Analytics Lab, Professor in Food Distribution and Policy, Dalhousie University
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Professor of Accounting, University of Portsmouth
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Professor of Food Policy, City, University of London
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Professor; Faculty of Science, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Urban Informatics, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Molecular Biosciences, Queen's University Belfast
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Professor, Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph
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Marine Ecologist and ARC Future Fellow, University of South Australia
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Professor of Marine Biodiversity, Liverpool John Moores University
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Toronto-based, doctoral researcher, Food Chain / Supply Chain Transparency, Trust, Technology, Standards @ Henley Business School, University of Reading
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Associate Professor - Arrell Chair in Food Quality, University of Guelph
